Retail Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Retailing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 36 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing Retail 12 10 21
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.40% 3.33% 3.57%
As % of the General category 7.41% 5.38% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 13
10th Percentile £197 £198 £250
25th Percentile £209 £200 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £275 £500
Median % change year-on-year +154.78% -45.05% -11.11%
75th Percentile £730 £394 £585
90th Percentile £735 £491 £613
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £455 £349 £500
% change year-on-year +30.23% -30.20% -11.11%

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 162 186 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 59.34% 62.00% 60.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 117 269
10th Percentile £225 £226 £262
25th Percentile £343 £326 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £636 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £423 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.11% -10.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 9
10th Percentile £15.12 £13.61 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.28 £16.09 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £24.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% +21.75% +53.85%
75th Percentile - £35.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.37 £25.20
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £23.81 £30.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -20.65% +41.18% +44.07%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Retail job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Milton Keynes

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (16.67%) Automotive
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) German Language
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) B2C
1 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Information Management
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Product Information Management
3 2 (16.67%) Release Management
3 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Korn
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Ab Initio
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce